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“There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Myself with Others: Selected Essays

tags: allusion, content, creation, form, tradition

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“All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality

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“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
― Pat Miller, Willfully Ignorant

tags: historical-fiction

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